UNEMPLOYED LABOUR.
TO THE EDITOR. j Sir, —I wish to state that I got one of i the unemployed on my farm two weeks ago to try and help him a little. His job I was to pick up fleeces in the shearing I shed. Work started from 5.30 a.m. and lasrted to 5.30 p.m., the total working time being eight hours 20 minutes. This man would not get out of bed till 7.30, and he always wanted to stop before 5 p.m., making his working time a little over seven hours. He was offered a job the other day at thinning turnips, at fl per acre, and he refused it, as he said that if he worked now it would spoil his chance of getting his share of this relief work money. He was out of work five months when he came here. I do not wonder at some of the farmers not employing any labour, but if the farms were situated in the town there would be no difficulty in obtaining labour. This “dole” money will be the means of spoiling a lot of those who are out of work because they think they will get it for nothing.—l am, etc., 23/185.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21212, 18 December 1930, Page 15
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204UNEMPLOYED LABOUR. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21212, 18 December 1930, Page 15
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